Angel Velazquez
Senior Software Development Engineer at Snowflake
United States
Summary
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RockstarAngel Velazquez is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 7+ years building high-scale, cloud-native systems, most recently at Snowflake after a decade-long tenure at AWS. He architects and implements performant services in Go, Java and C/C++, with hands-on experience across container and cloud ecosystems evidenced by contributions to the widely used amazon-ecs-agent. Angel blends backend systems design with pragmatic engineering—improving testability, adding structured logging, and resolving subtle startup issues that impact production reliability. His background includes full-stack and desktop engineering at GE Aviation, giving him broad perspective from UI to low-level systems. Known for thoughtfully refactoring critical paths, he focuses on scalable, maintainable solutions that reduce operational friction. Based in the United States, he combines deep technical craft with a clear drive to make complex technology easier for users and teams.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (6)
docker10
agent10
go10
amazon-ecs10
dockers10
logging9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aws/amazon-ecs-agent
Aug 2020 - May 2022
Amazon Elastic Container Service Agent
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 652 reviews, 92 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Angel's contributions primarily involved enhancing the Amazon ECS Agent. They focused on improving integration tests by creating the `sdkClientFactory` only once. Additionally, the user added structured logging to the agent, replacing older logging methods, and resolved an issue that prevented agent startup when the `awsfirelens` logging driver was specified. The user also refactored the agent's execute command agent start process.
service-containeramazon-ec2agentelasticamazon
angelcar/amazon-ecs-agent
Aug 2020 - May 2022
Amazon Elastic Container Service Agent
Contributions:2 PRs, 351 pushes, 90 branches in 1 year 10 months
service-containeragentelasticamazondocker
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